Tag: Featured
-
The Law of Jante in Nordic Role-playing
in
The good roleplayers exist, but is our naive egalitarianism scaring them away? A Danish writer, teacher and game designer takes a closer look.
-
Pillage the Vikings!
in
A thousand years ago, Viking warriors came out of the Nordic countries, raiding and conquering in Britain, Ireland, Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe, Russia and North America. They mercilessly pillaged the finest things they could find. Now it’s time for the rest of the world to take something back – and to help themselves to the…
-
Russian Roulette in Practice
in
This article describes the selection process used for high-resolution dramatic larp called Skoro Rassvet [Breaking Dawn] >(2012, 15 players). Its advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Knowing that we could take the risk because the number of potential candidates exceeded the number of offered roles several times over, we decided to perform an experiment and select…
-
Culture Calibration in Pre-larp Workshops
in
With a few exceptions, all larps take place in a set culture. This can be either a fictional culture or a culture based on the real world. For the previous larps where I have been part of the organizer team, we have made an effort to define the culture together with the players through a…
-
Knutpunkt 2014 – Summary
in
The larp conference Knutpunkt 2014 is now over and in this post we will gather as much material as possible. This post has been updated with all the filmed presentations, many of the slides, blogposts etc. Last updated 2014-05-08 Blog posts The Event Lizzie Stark: A Few Cool Things I Saw at Knutpunkt 2014 Thomas B.: Knutpunkt…